Re:Opensource alternatives? (Score 2, Interesting)

Skype, being owned by a private company, seems to be headed down the road of trying to lock in as many people as possible. All well and good, but the standard is closed (as you said) and the current Skype CEO is also the co-founder of Kazaa, Niklas Zennstr. He obviously has no qualms will malware or spyware since he ok'd the company that bought Kazaa from him ( now a notorious spyware bomb) to come bundled with Skype sometime around Nov of 2004.

This will hurt VOIP in the long run because it will sap any open standard implementations and will, if it takes off, determine the standard instead of following an open one.